If she would have, like, made a commitment to Elizabeth, then it wouldn't have been weird.

Like, she could have made a commitment to respect Elizabeth's marriage to John? - it would have been, like, a really unique way of getting there? Getting to, you know, that space of living a life of truth?

But it wouldn't have been weird. It would have been just, you know, like a really really real... process.

i'd also be really interested to know how Oprah really views this woman. Oprah was very clearly mocking Rielle at different points in the interview. Oprah *has* to realize that Rielle is spouting some nonsense that sounds very much similar to what people call Oprah religion (which is why Rielle choose Oprah for the interview).

I wonder if Oprah will feel the need to draw more explicit boundaries when talking about spirituality so that people who agree with her view of spirituality wont be able to run amok, justifying everything they do in spiritual language the way Rielle did.

There's lot of reasons people have affairs. I'm not generally inclined to judge them too harshly for it, depending on the circumstances. But I get quite irate and judgmental when they try to JUSTIFY it.

It was an affair. You had the hots for each other. You had hot, sweaty sex to help you pass the time. Ok, we got it. It happens. But when you try to justify it, that implies that it might be right under some circumstances and that society shouldn't frown on it, and that it's ok. It's not. And most of the excuses and justifications are just bullshit, in the end.

If I ever get busted for having an affair, I hope I have the decency to just say: "I'm sorry. It happened, it shouldn't have happened, and I have no excuses for what happened. I'm ready to accept the consequences of my misconduct."

You can tell she's not so much trying to convince us as she is trying to convince herself that it was ok to have an affair with the husband of a cancer-stricken woman, and that she wasn't just one more piece of ass being taken advantage of by one more horn-dog of a politician. It's sad.

If it was right for Hunter because she didn't make a commitment, was it wrong for Edwards, who did? People often believe that the opportunity to be with a soul mate justifies breaking the vows they made to others.

It happens. But when you try to justify it, that implies that it might be right under some circumstances and that society shouldn't frown on it, and that it's ok. It's not. And most of the excuses and justifications are just bullshit, in the end.

If she would have, like, made a commitment to Elizabeth, then it wouldn't have been weird.

Like, she could have made a commitment to respect Elizabeth's marriage to John? - it would have been, like, a really unique way of getting there? Getting to, you know, that space of living a life of truth?

But it wouldn't have been weird. It would have been just, you know, like a really really real... process.

Like, why are we wasting time on this New age bimbo? I mean, it's not like anybody cares or anything. She was just the nearest slut when John Edwards, chosen by John Kerry to be a heartbeat away fron the Presidency, got his horn up.

True true, Meade. In her solipsistic world view, its interesting that she thinks that in 'helping' John to live a life of truth, that didn't involve him honoring his vows and his love for his wife and children. It only involved them both lying to her -- him directly, her indirectly by participating in his lying by hiding in expensive rental houses on campaign money.

I, like, know it sounds so very strange, but he wanted to live a life of truth..

...he just wanted it to be the truth that he wanted to live at that particular moment in his life.

And I can respect that kind of honesty, to - you know - have the courage to live the truth that you want to live, when - you know - other truths might be sort of condemning you.

I mean, that's what I was so attracted to - his courage to speak his truth to the power of his wife, the courage to hold to his truth regardless of the cost to him, his wife, his family, and the country to whom he was lying.

My sisters are forcing me to go to this therapist? and I really, really don't want to go.I haven't visited a therapist since my parents divorced when I was 11 years old and the experience was traumatising.

It is North Carolina. Elizabeth *could* have sued Rielle for alienation of affection which is an actionable offense in the state and she would have won. I don't know what assets Hunter had that could have been collected other than the sex tape. And I haven't seen it for sale...yet.

Like, you know, love is this cosmic thing that can deepen and enrich the human psyche, and through my soul-attachment to Johnny I had my awareness raised. In fact, if Elizabeth had known we could have had built a truth platform where all of us could have enriched our love commitments on this crazy journey...

I don't particularly like her. She's clearly a new-age skank of the first order and I wouldn't touch her pussy with a 10-foot cock, but the people we need to see on Oprah are John and Elizabeth Edwards, who both deliberately perpetuated the lie that he was not cheating on his cancer-stricken wife at a time when he was running for high public office.

Rielle is a sideshow. She's had her 15 minutes and hit her jackpot. Glad to see that now we can ignore her.

When someone is, like, that homely, you expect they have something else to offer, like, like, a good mind. No such luck. But, then, her idea of the perfect man was a combination of a bad televangelist and the most used car salesman you ever met.

themightypuck said...

We may look down upon the other woman but she has made no promises to anyone. It is the married man who is breaking promises here.

So, isn't Rielle, like, in this weird way, the Oprah twin? I'm getting there's, like, this deep ... connection here, like, where, there's all these surface, like, non-real opposites, like the one is white and the other is black and the one is straight and the other is gay, and still, though, like all this surface stuff is, like, so kind of superficial, like, if you peel off all these, like, layers of maya, they are like, kind of, one,?

I briefly dated a woman recently who was really big on my "being present in the moment" when she'd tell me something. After making altogether far too many accommodations for the possibility that people just express similar ideas in myriad ways, I realized that, yeah, there's a reason she's 38 and has never been married even though she's been in long relationships and not for lack of trying or desire.

She was just, like, on her way to getting there - to a life of presence.

Or something.

wv: "bluctuts" -- picture the kind of fat ass that cottage cheeses all over itself, visible from down the aisle at costco through the stretched-tight pink velour sweatpants. And she's wearing a thong... That gal ain't got buttocks, she's got bluctuts.